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Native   /nˈeɪtɪv/   Listen
Native

adjective
1.
Characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin.  "Many native artists studied abroad"  Antonym: foreign.
2.
Belonging to one by birth.  "One's native language"  Antonym: adopted.
3.
Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning.  Synonym: aboriginal.  "The aboriginal peoples of Australia"  Antonym: nonnative.
4.
As found in nature in the elemental form.
noun
1.
An indigenous person who was born in a particular place.  Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene.  "The Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students"
2.
A person born in a particular place or country.
3.
Indigenous plants and animals.



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"Native" Quotes from Famous Books



... prayers I make will then be sweet indeed If Thou the spirit give by which I pray: My unassisted heart is barren clay, Which of its native self can nothing feed: Of good and pious works thou art the seed, Which quickens only where thou say'st it may: Unless thou shew to us thine own true way No man can find it: Father! thou must lead. ...
— Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. 1 • William Wordsworth
... organization. This, it is important to note, was established as a result of correspondence with a farmer of that place, and in by far the smallest town of the four. Kelley seems at first to have made the mistake of attempting to establish the order in the large cities, where it had no native ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
... moments the blacks held their ground within the entrance to the street, but the revolvers, rifles and cutlasses of the Frenchmen crumpled the native spearmen and struck down the black ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... fortification, one probably much older than the other, enclosing some 60 acres. The area excavated in 1914 was a tiny piece, about 30 yards square; the results were most promising. Five levels of stratification could be distinguished. The lowest and earliest yielded small objects of native work and Roman potsherds of the late first century: higher up, Roman coins and pottery of the second century appeared, and in the top level, Roman potsherds assigned to the fourth century. One Roman potsherd, from a second-century level, ...
— Roman Britain in 1914 • F. Haverfield
... Opoponax, whose mind Soared above her native tutors, Imperturbably declined All these brave and dusky suitors. Finally she hailed a tramp And, contriving to decamp To the shores of Patagonia, Finding them too chill and damp, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 10, 1917 • Various


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